The next Health Care for All Philly meeting will be AFTER the election on Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 7-9 PM. If you want to strategize about what we should be doing next, please come. The meeting will be in the Lucretia Mott Room, Friends Center, 1501 Cherry St, Philadelphia. Free and open to the public.
Don’t forget to VOTE!
Med Students will be gathering at City Hall, Dilworth Park, 6 PM on October 31 with costumes and signs to point out that single payer is a much better treat for health care and the current system with double digit premium hikes is the trick. Put on your costume and join them.
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Philadelphia Premiere. Come meet the Producers of this new documentary!!
“NOW IS THE TIME” Documentary Film Screening Premiere
Monday, October 10, 2016 – 6:30pm to 9:00pm, 542 Carpenter Ln, Philadelphia, PA 19119
Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg, producers of the “Health Care Movie” have created a brand new documentary that gives us a lot to ponder in these few short weeks leading up to the presidential election: “Now Is the Time: Healthcare for Everybody.” The film questions if we are on the right path to affordable, universal health care and makes the case for why we need a single payer health system in America. Laurie and Terry will be visiting Philadelphia on Oct. 10 for the Philadelphia premiere of their 71-minute film. Come see this free film, bring your questions and meet these activist filmmakers as they present their new movie at Weavers Way Co-op in Mt. Airy.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., the film rolls at 7. Admission is free; all are welcome. Register HERE.
“Six years after President Obama’s landmark health care achievement, our understanding of the triumphs and failures of the Affordable Care Act are clearer. Millions of Americans have gotten private health insurance, but 40% of Americans now have very high deductibles and copayments to wrestle with. Most private insurers have threatened to leave the individual Marketplace or have asked for 30-50% increases in premiums. Large federal expenditures are facing Congress as subsidies and Medicaid costs continue to rise. Health care is still a market commodity and not a public good.”
— Walter Tsou, past president of the American Public Health Association, former health commissioner of Philadelphia, founding member of the National Board of Public Health Examiners and president of Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility
Organizer Name:
The Weavers Way Membership Dept.
542 Carpenter Ln Philadelphia, PA 19119
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There will be several marches at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Join us as we support the need for single payer health care in America. We will be joining March for Our Lives, one of many marches. Meets at City Hall at 3 PM and we’ll walk the length of Broad Street to the Wells Fargo Center, location of the DNC. Along the way, we will be holding our signs asking for single payer.
Buses are offered at Buses
Housing is offered at Housing hosts
Other marches that weekend:
July 24 – March for Clean Energy Revolution
July 25 – 11 AM – March on DNC
July 25 – 3 PM – March for Our Lives
Businessman Richard Master got sick of double digit increases in his employee’s health insurance premiums and decided to investigate what was behind the rise in health care costs. His conclusion was that America needs a single payer, national health insurance system. His hour long documentary is a superb movie explaining the business case for single payer. If you promise to show the movie, you can get a copy and see the trailer at Fix It: Healthcare at the tipping point
Good stuff.
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We are going to move our general meeting which is open to the public to this Tuesday, Dec. 16 from 7-9 PM at the Friends Center, 1501 Cherry Street, small conf room with Physicians for Social Responsibility. (1st floor, straight back). Hope to see you there.
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Because key people are unable to come on Oct 14, the next general meeting of Health Care for All Philadelphia will be on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 7-9 PM, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way, Pennsylvania Federation, 421 North 7th Street, Suite 299
Philadelphia, PA 19123 (near Spring Garden and 7th St.) Note the change of date and location. We will be trying this location to see how it works.
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Please note a change of location for the general meeting which is moving to Temple Hospital, Broad and Tioga, 5 Parkinson, Room 525., 7- 9 PM, 2nd Tuesday of the month.
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Coming this Tuesday, March 11, we are going to have a mailing party for our annual fundraiser. If you are interested, please join us at the Community College of Philadelphia, Business Building, 18th and Callowhill St. Meet in the lobby. 7 PM.
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The gubernatorial candidates have been asked about their position on single payer. Our current information shows the following supporters of single payer:
John Hanger (D) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilSGk84j9uI
Max Myers (D)
Tom Wolf (D) studying it
Paul Glover (Green)
Opposed to single payer:
Allyson Schwartz (D)
JoEllen Litz (D)
Rob McCord (D)
Katie McGinty (D)
Tom Corbett (R)
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